Logistic function

Big businesses depend on shipments of products and materials and if you are in the business of shipping items, you know that customer satisfaction is the key to success. In years past though, there was only one true way to handle your trucks. The transportation management system (TMS) was the only real tool that you had. Set up was complicated, it was costly, and at the end of the day when you looked back at the log books, you would still see that your drivers ended up wasting a lot of time…

Professional Logistics and Supply Chain Management SME everywhere are incorporating research findings into their best practice to provide current, effective, and evidence-based best practices. Our exploration of evidence-based practice begins with developing focused research questions, directly relevant to a business problem or issue. A clear, concise, and succinct research question focuses the inquiry to produce meaningful results, cornerstone in practice and in research. In Logistics and…

c. From January to March 2018, Sergeant Garcia managed an inventory of class IX parts valued at $24 million. Applying his expertise, he worked tirelessly to optimize the requisition process by helping to restructure Global Combat Support System (GCSS–MC) reports that are being used in the newly developed demand forecasting model. His effort captures the necessary data points, such as Vendor Order Ship Time (VOST) that made it necessary to make replenishment buys. In the past, forecasting didn’t…

In reviewing the current delivery process, I immediately noticed that Spartan seems to have the same ship methods for every customer. While it may be easier for the transportation department to have a single shipping process, it is not necessarily the best move for our business. Spartan is shipping both local and rural orders via highway transport. Given the number of customers who often ask us to ship to multiple locations and the sheer number of orders in a given month, that equates to a lot…

outsource process such meat prepared to the company’s specifications to companies like Iowa Beef and Tyson. Furthermore, offshoring is exemplified by the company’s outsourcing of the both the cutting of salmon to the proper portion size as specified by Darden, and cracking or peeling of shrimps. Overall, Darden has successfully utilized the fundamental principle of supply chain and Just in time delivery to improve its profitability and presences within the business arena. Remarkably, the…

Logistics: the Capital’s Art of War Technologies of all kinds, as artifacts and systems themselves, are often described as neutral entities, incapable of exerting any significant effects unless they have been graced with the human touch. Social influences are certainly strong factors to political leniencies of technology; however, to say that technology is indefinitely neutral is an uncritical and unrealistic claim. As Langdon Winner identifies in his writing, “Do Artifacts Have Politics?”,…

Competencies particularly related with Wal-Mart’s success include; an integrated tech supply chain, the capability to generate huge sales volumes, decentralization of operations, loftier logistics system, effective management practices within all branches notwithstanding the involving management style between the headquarter and individual stores. When observed individually, these competencies are mere competitive advantages, but together…

3.1 Agility, flexibility and responsiveness of supply chain Sustainable competitive advantage is a strength that all businesses strive for. Similar to successful international clothing companies such as Zara, H&M and Mango, all of whom have agile, flexible and responsive supply chain management systems, Linda’s strive to adopt these qualities so that it can emulate its competitors. The Triple an effect by Hau L Lee, speaks to effective supply chains being agile and adaptable, so that their…

Real Time Analytics in Supply Chain Paradigm shift Over a decade, we have witnessed a paradigm shift in the way information is generated and handled in society. The change is driven by various factors: our vastly increasing ability to store and perform computation over very large sets of data; and most importantly the introduction of Internet of Things. The amounts of data available when making decisions or keeping an overview is enormous and is produced at ever increasing rates and the…

exhibited the estimation of investigation in the investigation of military logistics issues in the 1940s as an aftereffect of the mind boggling necessities of World War II. While Industrial Engineering and Operations Research have each attempted to keep up independent personalities, a significant number of their greatest victories have happened when utilized as a part of a coordinated system to address inventory network and logistics issues. Progressively this is alluded to by industry as "Scm…